St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-23

In order to facilitate the customs buSines
on the maritime coasts, the commanders o
the various cruisers engaged in the protec
ton of the Canadian sea fisheries have beer
appointed preventive officers in her maj
esty's customs. with power to receive re
ports inward and outward from American
fishing vessels when arriving at outer port
of harbors, and thus save the delays caused
in reporting to the customs officers.
The strikers at Jimtown, in the Connells
vile coke region, intimidated a number O
workmen by firing revolvers over their head
and using threats.
The East Saginaw mill employees, at Eas
Saginaw Mich, are reported to be quietly
working to secure in whatever manner they
can, the exclusion of French Canadians who
come over during the winter to work in the
woods at which time mill men can only fine
work in the lumber camps.
At a meeting of the bureau of immigra
ton, of New Mexico at Las Vegas, it was de
cided to publish pamphlet on that Territory
setting forth its advantages. 1t was shown
that very small portion of the area of the
Territory is covered by land grants and that
fully nine-tenths of New Mexico is open to
settlement The crops are in fine condition
and there has been less irrigation than any
year heretofore Immigration is steadily in
creasing and there is active dealing in real
estate in the larger towns.
At Cincinnati, in the case of Comptroller
Trenholm against the Fidelity National
Bank and its officers, to forfeit its charter,
Judge Sage by agreement of all parties. en-
! tered an order dismissing the action against
the directors and officers, but finding that
the bank had violated the laws of the United
States by loaning money to D. A. Fitzpatrick
and others upon the security of its own
capital stock, and by permitting its cash on
hand to fall below the required % per cent.
of its circulation and deposits, and by incur
ring new obligations while in this insolvent
condition. The charter of the bank is there
fore declared forfeited. This action puts all
the assets of the late bank into the hands of
Receiver Armstrong, and dissolves all at
tachments upon its property made since the
bank was seized by the government
The annual report of the National Division
of the Sons and Daughters of Temperance
shows an increase in mem bership of 3, ,e51,
making total membership of "a, 379.
Colonel D. C. Keller, of Reading, Pa,
president of the State Liquor League, refused
to attend the annual convention of the
league in Allentown. Instead of going he
sent letter resigning the presidency of the
league. He says that he resigned because
he was continually harassed and antagonized
by an element in the organization bent upon
setting all laws at defiance, and who by their
disgraceful efforts were simply arousing pub
lie sentiment against the organization and
the honorable purpose for which it was
formed"
At the session of the Womans Christian
Temperance Union, at Lake Bluff, near Chi
cago, it was decided in committee of the
whole 'sthat Madam President was the
proper expression, and not Miss or Mrs.
President The reasons We're many-frst,
because there is no need of designating
presiding officer by word which denotes her
home relationships; she is an individual,
first of all, and not first of all, to be classified
by her relation to some man; and secondly,
the word Madam is far more euphonious
and dignified than the kissing, issring
sound of Miss or Mrs.
AiS iSSoiPts VI tAc SOfcfLiI1cIlG 50 lar CuIS
month amount to $l0,693, ,567, and the ex-
penditures, including nearly sl2 1000, 900 pen
sion payments, to SIS, 56l ,1O2, making an
excess of expenditures of 81, 1867, ,535. 1t is
estimated at the Treasury Department that
the receipts during the remainder of the
month will average 100000 a day, and
that the expenditures will be correspond
ingly large.
The Treasury Department has been un-
able to meet the heavy demand for notes
of small denominations. Arrangements
have been made, however, to secure an in
creased supply of silver certificates from the
bureau of engraving and printing, and
they will be issued as soon as possible.
While watching a thunderstorm from
their piazza, near Opelika, Ala, Mrs. John
Bankhead and her three children were
struck by lightning. Two of the children
were killed and the other child and mother |
are in critical condition.
Mrs. Craig and her niece Allie Phillips
were caught on trestle bridge near Dalton,
Ga, by a train and killed.
The fire in the Otto colliery, near Potts
vile, is still raging. and the ground around
the mouth of the slope is cavng in. Young
Eddie Ferguson, son of the outside boss (the
boy who first discovered the fre), was cross
ing the floor of the engine room with his
fathers dinner when the charred boards
gave way and disappeared into the burning
mine, amid an outburst of fame, caused by
The collapse of the engine-house floor.
The photograph material establishment of
E. & II. T. Anthony, on Broadway, New
York, has been burned out. C. Callam &,
Co., dealers in straw goods on the ground
1oor, lost several thousand dollars by smoke
md water, and tenants in adjoining build
ngs also suffered. The total loss is esti-
mated at $125, 900, of which 100000 falls on
he Anthonys. -Four fremen were over
'ome by the heat and one of them had to
'e sent to the hospital.
A tornado and hailstorm has passed over
portions of Hughes and Sully Counties
Oak. Hailstones as large as hens eggs
uined the crops, while the wind blew down
number of buildings.
James Martin, drug clerk in Bridgeport,
jonn., was charging a soda fountain, when
burst, and large fragment struck him,
ausinp comnoun6 fract,7ro Of both laos |